I think therefore Council gets to discuss this before it comes in? Only if requisitionists force such a discussion, I suspect. If the new system is going be introduced for 2019 - 2020, that would have to happen at the Finance Council Meeting on Saturday 27th April 2019. The last Home Director did a...

For what it's worth... Votes on a poll shall be counted by tellers appointed by the meeting who may themselves vote if so entitled. In respect of a vote by poll where the vote is in respect of election to an office or post, the Tellers shall keep confidential the details of all votes cast except for...

Nigel tweeted on 9 Nov: "A quiet revolution is taking place in FIDE. Roughly one third of the commissions, and almost one third of the commissioners, were axed today. This was a necessary change, but nevertheless quite breathtaking." So which commissions and commissioners have gone and why? Can't s...

Its the first time in many years that I've given adjournments any thought but it did occur to me that back in the day the game would have been adjourned at some point after move 30... The referenced Game 5 of the 1978 Korchnoi-Karpov match - the longest-lasting World Championship game at 124 moves ...

My guess is that something will be said, because it's easy as well as right and because nobody likes AGON. What will actually be done though, is a harder question. I have a vague recollection of Dvorkovich saying, during his election campaign, something to the effect that next month's AGON-organise...

This thread appears to have lost its way already. Statistics are interesting but this discussion needs to be about strategy and ideas for chess development and how the ECF can provide some muscle to get behind it. Doesn't strategy start with assessing where you are, including in relation to your pe...

Paul, organisations are admitted, depending on their type, either by the Board or by Council. See Articles 3-7 of the Articles of Association for more information. There's an annual membership fee which is currently £60 but no fee is payable if the organisation organises events with graded games and...

Those backwards, third-world, countries... maybe we can learn something from them. And look at the player counts. We're dwarfed by each of Germany, France and Spain. And Iran has five times as many active players as we do and nine times as many female players. Some stats on participation (male/femal...

One thing I was confused about at the meeting: somehow the agenda item for the increased budget for the current year (item 12) - and presumably the two years which follow (though the agenda item doesn't say that) - and the agenda item for increased membership fees for future years (item 13) were dis...

"Even loyal ministers are deeply worried - "She is like a chess player who only has the king left - all she can do is move one square at a time until she is check-mated." BBC News website, analysing Theresa May's Brexit situation. And from The Observer today: Another Tory MP likened her problem to ...

Adrian Elwin 147, Tim Wall 135, not this candidate 5. Close then. Any impressions as to why the meeting or proxies preferred Adrian? A few thoughts: - I liked both candidates and would have been pleased to have either as Home Director. - I liked what Tim said about developing chess at the grassroot...